Very definitely a good idea . but not likely to happen.. Same with most digital data . But you can easily back it up to dvd or an external drive or tape etc . I do occasionally get some things off of iTunes(things i can't get normally or only want one song off the album) , first thing I do is back it up to external media . There are plenty of good reasons to avoid online services such as yahoo or iTunes but that is not really one of them .
You know you can back them up on DVD or CD.. Its a good idea to do that with important data . I do buy most of my music via second hand CDs (or new if I can't find them second hand) but a failing HDD is not a reason to avoid iTunes .
"No one with an modicum of wit would ever find these things worth paying for except at the business end of a bobby's pistol." Yeah Monty python lacks and comedy brilliance , don't get me started on Fawlty towers. Also those dammed awful documentaries and shows like the sky at night . Also some low rated sci-fi like Dr Who and Red Dwarf BBC certainly is the worst .
Now I'm off , Its time for the men in white coats to give me my injections and warm coat with straps .
The tagging of "Professional Edition" on to an OS or piece of software is the equivalent of " FROD LOCUST GT EDITION... 2.6 cam engine Car ".There is likely no real advantage for most users and perhaps a few disadvantages , but people like to think they are getting the best . The easy answer;Name the normal version "Professional " or "Power user" and name the true pro version "industry " or such like .
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I just submitted this as a story.It seems very important.The Guardian,BBC and NY times said they will get back to me when they print it.User xerxesVII (707232) was quoted as saying "Nice to see that your dyslexia isn't restricted to your user name" , My Catséro was heard commenting " I made the same spelling error in my user name on 14 other sites , doh doh doh" he was later heard saying"
YRO:Man makes spelling error on slashdot Fron the I am bored and have karma to burn dept. Fidelcatsro reports : I have made another spelling error on slashdot.
I just submitted this as a story.It seems very important.The Guardian,BBC and NY times said they will get back to me when they print it.User xerxesVII (707232) was quoted as saying "Nice to see that your dyslexia isn't restricted to your user name" , My Catséro was heard commenting " I made the same spelling error in my user name on 14 other sites , doh doh doh" he was later heard saying"
I am currently waiting for some future furore over the issues of "Human-Alien marriage rights " , "second hand Teleport residue causing cancer"," dangerous addiction to Holo-decks" and "Wont somebody please think of the Alpha-centaurians " .
With their crystal ball are managing to see some ghosts in the machine , I don't believe in ghosts.Show me hard evidence or flutter off
OS X's stability is absolutely , in all the time i have been running the system I have had one crash (The Crash was my fault ) , The finder has restarted itself a few times which i believe has lost me a sum total of 60 seconds working time . The only times I have had programs that were unstable was when i was using Beta versions of things.
Security has also not been a problem , It automatically runs the system update regularly if you don't do it yourself . The worst that could happen is someone passes you a dodgy installer which runs some sort of server but that's not OS X's fault .
OS X is up there with the best *NIXs in these regards .
Symantec I believe has been using classic mac OSs (someone should tell them that 10 is a bigger number than 8) , They were buggy and full of holes .
OS X is not perfect by any means and has had its fair share of patches , But I could say with confidence that it could go toe to toe with linux in these areas .
Well it was not a dead joke to me , I had never heard of him before . Kind of like the band that the story is about.No idea who they are either . I am assuming the moderator also had not heard the joke and/or of.50 before .
But if you insist on a new joke....50 cents obviously has 1/20th the skill of Luciano Pavarotti* Stale jokes get stale because they are funny and people repeat them .
To stay a bit more on topic for a second(and to avoid a second post) , www.foetus.org has a few songs and videos available for download, about 11 tracks (though off various albums ) , all the tracks are By Foetus himself , he just uses different names occasionally .
Yes,though a lot of them make most of their money doing Gigs , so some Free Promos are always useful.
This way they can say up yours to the Record industry , persuade people to come see a concert and perhaps even sell some t-shirts/ CDs (I would still buy CD's even if it was available free , If i like it I would want to support the band )
I run Ubuntu on my PC's , Solaris and Debian on my servers and OS X +ubuntu on my Macs . I haven't had that many problems if there is a PPC port of the code (unless the source contains no Arch specific code).Fink is very very useful if you're ever using OS X (Apt-get on OS X , plenty of ports) if you don't feel like lumbering through miles of source code . I have rarely had problems though as most of the things I use the mac for are available (Plus I have linux running under Bochs if i ever need it , quite useful (if slow) for testing things) . OS X is not POSIX certified though the base system is based on FreeBSD .
The apple thing is all personal taste , I think iTunes is excellent as it does all it needs to for me (catalogues my collection , makes play lists , plays things and has a nice search ) . If you need a good Video player mplayer/VLC is ported and works like a charm . That is pretty much all I use my macs for , DVD / Video/A few games and testing/browsing web sites.
The laptops never gave me a problem because I loath any form of Touch pad;) and just plug a mouse in ( not always an ideal solution , but one of those pointers would be lovely ) The battery life on iBooks is very good also . I havn't really had a chance to play around with the latest iMac , Did it not come with an adaptor for the jack . The eMac has standard in and out for audio .
Ubuntu PPC is great , though there are less pre-compiled binaries available which can slow you down (depending on what you need)
Of course they have to have the money to fight it . Perhaps some lawyers would do it on a no-win no-fee basis.If you lose the case or the perpetrators have no way of paying the fine,then nothing can replace the time you lost on the case .
It does require at least 512MB RAM but I have never had a problem with it (both my Macs have 768 , though it was not bad on a 256MB mac mini i had a go on.. till you open up too many programs , a ram upgrade fixed that little glitch) I am more a *nix Zealot (though not really a zealot) than a mac zealot , but OS X is one of the best User level *nix's I have ever had the pleasure to use.10.4 has some noticeable improvements as a client computer and some great user level improvements . If your friend can afford it , tell him to get 256MB more ram in the machine , s/he will notice a world of difference . Honestly though , the GUI has not really changed bar some of the removed um.. bars . I suspect the problem they are having is to do with Spotlight or running Dashboard .
Under laws which control Fraud , Identify theft,and such like . IANAL but why would there need to be a new law for phishing? it is after all just fraud .
10.4 is a lot faster in my experience , It works more swiftly on my old g3 iMac (400mhz g3) (turned off the widgets).. but besides that . It has a great number of functional improvements on the command line and in the system programs.. not to mention the user land programs.. though i do prefer the 10.2 look I don't think there are that many differences on the GUI front On my g4 machine it simply flies . spotlight is also grand I would rather that Ubuntu had placed higher though (not strictly a 2005 thing )
People would likely also not mind nor notice if the standards were adhered to .
Of course it doesn't matter in the real world , so long as it gets the job done . We are not all in the real world (not literally )though , a lot of us here are in the IT industry and do mind when standards are not used properly .
If were talking about the Camera then the perspective thing is out the window . I would be interested in getting one , Depends how hackable it is.. Would be great if someone could implement some firmware hack so you could use your own server .
Religious tolerance is allowing people to freely express their beliefs and supporting their rights to hold those beliefs . There is nothing wrong with parodying them and having a laugh about how silly they are . Religion is something you choose and should be free to choose. It should also be something we are free to mock .
He sincerely believes that the spaghetti monster is a good parody , he sincerely believes that their religious ideas are a load of bunkum . Is there any difference ? Should he be disallowed from expressing those beliefs in this manner , especially with a crowed in which many share those beliefs .
Even though we all know its partially twaddle.. the word was created by the invisible pink unicorn and that the Spaghetti monster is in fact the great Evil .
Me and a few of my friends walked out of a bar one time with a table and four chairs.We returned them about 5 minutes after.. If it had possessed some Beer ordering wireless tech I imagine i would of kept it though .
Real world implementation could be perhaps just a concept design of the product or a prototype . Which should help most smaller inventors . There would need to be provisions to help the smaller inventors whistle still avoiding submarine patents
I realise we are not going to get rid of Patents any time soon . I have my own Ideas for global patent reform though.
1:They should be on a first to implement basis (real world use of the concept) 2: They should last for 3-5 years at max (which should be long enough for a company to make money in the market) 3: they must be specific to a particular process or concept 4: if patents are not defended as soon as it is reasonably possible to know infringement occurred , then they are lost and enter the public domain. 5: After the 3-5 year period then the patents enter the public domain and can never be re-patented 6: companies found to have patented another companies implementations will be fined heavily 7: Patents may be granted for a process which may save lives , though any attempts to restrict it with unreasonable fees will cause a loss of the patent . 8: Algorithms may not be patented
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Playing games like UT2004 when we have a break from working .
Though I wouldn't buy an ATI card even if they got their drivers on par with their windows Drivers .
They are just not very good at OpenGL are they .
Very definitely a good idea . but not likely to happen .. Same with most digital data . But you can easily back it up to dvd or an external drive or tape etc .
I do occasionally get some things off of iTunes(things i can't get normally or only want one song off the album) , first thing I do is back it up to external media .
There are plenty of good reasons to avoid online services such as yahoo or iTunes but that is not really one of them .
You know you can back them up on DVD or CD .. Its a good idea to do that with important data .
I do buy most of my music via second hand CDs (or new if I can't find them second hand) but a failing HDD is not a reason to avoid iTunes .
"No one with an modicum of wit would ever find these things worth paying for except at the business end of a bobby's pistol."
Yeah Monty python lacks and comedy brilliance , don't get me started on Fawlty towers.
Also those dammed awful documentaries and shows like the sky at night .
Also some low rated sci-fi like Dr Who and Red Dwarf
BBC certainly is the worst .
Now I'm off , Its time for the men in white coats to give me my injections and warm coat with straps .
The tagging of "Professional Edition" on to an OS or piece of software is the equivalent of " FROD LOCUST GT EDITION ... 2.6 cam engine Car " .There is likely no real advantage for most users and perhaps a few disadvantages , but people like to think they are getting the best . ;Name the normal version "Professional " or "Power user" and name the true pro version "industry " or such like .
The easy answer
Fron the I am bored and have karma to burn dept.
Fidelcatsro reports : I have made another spelling error on slashdot .
I just submitted this as a story
It's an announcement of an announcement of an announcement .
I am currently waiting for some future furore over the issues of "Human-Alien marriage rights " , "second hand Teleport residue causing cancer" ," dangerous addiction to Holo-decks" and "Wont somebody please think of the Alpha-centaurians " .
With their crystal ball are managing to see some ghosts in the machine , I don't believe in ghosts .Show me hard evidence or flutter off
OS X's stability is absolutely , in all the time i have been running the system I have had one crash (The Crash was my fault ) , The finder has restarted itself a few times which i believe has lost me a sum total of 60 seconds working time .
The only times I have had programs that were unstable was when i was using Beta versions of things.
Security has also not been a problem , It automatically runs the system update regularly if you don't do it yourself . The worst that could happen is someone passes you a dodgy installer which runs some sort of server but that's not OS X's fault .
OS X is up there with the best *NIXs in these regards .
Symantec I believe has been using classic mac OSs (someone should tell them that 10 is a bigger number than 8) , They were buggy and full of holes .
OS X is not perfect by any means and has had its fair share of patches , But I could say with confidence that it could go toe to toe with linux in these areas .
Well it was not a dead joke to me , I had never heard of him before . .No idea who they are either . .50 before .
... .50 cents obviously has 1/20th the skill of Luciano Pavarotti*
l I found a new respect for public enemy after reading this article and a few more of Chuck D's writings .
Kind of like the band that the story is about
I am assuming the moderator also had not heard the joke and/or of
But if you insist on a new joke
Stale jokes get stale because they are funny and people repeat them .
To stay a bit more on topic for a second(and to avoid a second post) , www.foetus.org has a few songs and videos available for download, about 11 tracks (though off various albums ) , all the tracks are By Foetus himself , he just uses different names occasionally .
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,60650,00.htm
http://www.shutemdown.com/pebtn2000.htm Full public enemy (unreleased) albums available for download here
I got the link from the official public enemy site , so it is legit AFAIK
*tenner is UK slang for 10GBP (Pavarotti is a tenor ) in case anyone was wondering why that makes no sense
"50 cent relesed 5 hit mixtapes before he did a single paid album."
So by the time he released an album he was $2.50
Yes ,though a lot of them make most of their money doing Gigs , so some Free Promos are always useful.
This way they can say up yours to the Record industry , persuade people to come see a concert and perhaps even sell some t-shirts/ CDs (I would still buy CD's even if it was available free , If i like it I would want to support the band )
I run Ubuntu on my PC's , Solaris and Debian on my servers and OS X +ubuntu on my Macs . .Fink is very very useful if you're ever using OS X (Apt-get on OS X , plenty of ports) if you don't feel like lumbering through miles of source code . I have rarely had problems though as most of the things I use the mac for are available (Plus I have linux running under Bochs if i ever need it , quite useful (if slow) for testing things) . OS X is not POSIX certified though the base system is based on FreeBSD .
/A few games and testing/browsing web sites.
;) and just plug a mouse in ( not always an ideal solution , but one of those pointers would be lovely ) The battery life on iBooks is very good also .
I haven't had that many problems if there is a PPC port of the code (unless the source contains no Arch specific code)
The apple thing is all personal taste , I think iTunes is excellent as it does all it needs to for me (catalogues my collection , makes play lists , plays things and has a nice search ) . If you need a good Video player mplayer/VLC is ported and works like a charm . That is pretty much all I use my macs for , DVD / Video
The laptops never gave me a problem because I loath any form of Touch pad
I havn't really had a chance to play around with the latest iMac , Did it not come with an adaptor for the jack . The eMac has standard in and out for audio
.
Ubuntu PPC is great , though there are less pre-compiled binaries available which can slow you down (depending on what you need)
Of course they have to have the money to fight it . Perhaps some lawyers would do it on a no-win no-fee basis .If you lose the case or the perpetrators have no way of paying the fine ,then nothing can replace the time you lost on the case .
It does require at least 512MB RAM but I have never had a problem with it (both my Macs have 768 , though it was not bad on a 256MB mac mini i had a go on .. till you open up too many programs , a ram upgrade fixed that little glitch) .10.4 has some noticeable improvements as a client computer and some great user level improvements . If your friend can afford it , tell him to get 256MB more ram in the machine , s/he will notice a world of difference . .. bars . I suspect the problem they are having is to do with Spotlight or running Dashboard .
I am more a *nix Zealot (though not really a zealot) than a mac zealot , but OS X is one of the best User level *nix's I have ever had the pleasure to use
Honestly though , the GUI has not really changed bar some of the removed um
Under laws which control Fraud , Identify theft ,and such like .
IANAL but why would there need to be a new law for phishing? it is after all just fraud .
10.4 is a lot faster in my experience , It works more swiftly on my old g3 iMac (400mhz g3) (turned off the widgets) .. but besides that . .. not to mention the user land programs .. though i do prefer the 10.2 look I don't think there are that many differences on the GUI front
It has a great number of functional improvements on the command line and in the system programs
On my g4 machine it simply flies . spotlight is also grand
I would rather that Ubuntu had placed higher though (not strictly a 2005 thing )
People would likely also not mind nor notice if the standards were adhered to .
Of course it doesn't matter in the real world , so long as it gets the job done .
We are not all in the real world (not literally )though , a lot of us here are in the IT industry and do mind when standards are not used properly .
If were talking about the Camera then the perspective thing is out the window . .. Would be great if someone could implement some firmware hack so you could use your own server .
I would be interested in getting one , Depends how hackable it is
Religious tolerance is allowing people to freely express their beliefs and supporting their rights to hold those beliefs .
.. the word was created by the invisible pink unicorn and that the Spaghetti monster is in fact the great Evil .
There is nothing wrong with parodying them and having a laugh about how silly they are .
Religion is something you choose and should be free to choose. It should also be something we are free to mock .
He sincerely believes that the spaghetti monster is a good parody , he sincerely believes that their religious ideas are a load of bunkum . Is there any difference ? Should he be disallowed from expressing those beliefs in this manner , especially with a crowed in which many share those beliefs .
Even though we all know its partially twaddle
Me and a few of my friends walked out of a bar one time with a table and four chairs .We returned them about 5 minutes after .. If it had possessed some Beer ordering wireless tech I imagine i would of kept it though .
It can , When the weight suddenly increases unexpectedly .
*KERPLONK *
Real world implementation could be perhaps just a concept design of the product or a prototype .
Which should help most smaller inventors .
There would need to be provisions to help the smaller inventors whistle still avoiding submarine patents
I realise we are not going to get rid of Patents any time soon . I have my own Ideas for global patent reform though.
1:They should be on a first to implement basis (real world use of the concept)
2: They should last for 3-5 years at max (which should be long enough for a company to make money in the market)
3: they must be specific to a particular process or concept
4: if patents are not defended as soon as it is reasonably possible to know infringement occurred , then they are lost and enter the public domain.
5: After the 3-5 year period then the patents enter the public domain and can never be re-patented
6: companies found to have patented another companies implementations will be fined heavily
7: Patents may be granted for a process which may save lives , though any attempts to restrict it with unreasonable fees will cause a loss of the patent .
8: Algorithms may not be patented
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It was such a good story that it was posted twice